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More than a dozen North Texans have been arrested on charges in connection with the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol.
They are among more the scores of people across the country who have been arrested on suspicion of involvement in the mob assault on the building, and the FBI has said more arrests are expected.
In a briefing with former Vice President Mike Pence with other officials Jan. 14, FBI Director Christopher Wray said that hundreds of suspects had been identified.
“We know who you are, if you’re out there, and FBI agents are coming to find you,” Wray said. “If I were those people, you don’t want to be the ones to have FBI agents knocking on your door at 6 a.m.”
The FBI has asked for tips about who may have incited or promoted violence at the Capitol. Anyone may submit information, including photos and videos, at fbi.gov/USCapitol.
These are the North Texans who have been arrested after storming the Capitol. This list will be updated if further arrests are made:
Larry Brock
Larry Rendall Brock Jr., 54, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, has been charged with one count of entering or remaining in a restricted building without lawful authority and one count of violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.
Brock was arrested Jan. 10 after pictures and videos showed him inside the Senate chamber on Jan. 6 while wearing combat gear and carrying zip ties.
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U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeffrey Cureton ordered Brock released days later on restrictive conditions including house arrest.
Nolan Cooke
Authorities say 23-year-old Nolan Bernard Cooke, from the Fannin County city of Savoy, wore a GoPro camera to document his time at the insurrection.
Footage shared on social media shows him pushing past police outside the Capitol, according to court documents.
Cooke was arrested Jan. 21 and faces charges of acts during civil disorder, unlawful activities on Capitol grounds and entering or remaining on restricted buildings or grounds and disorderly or disruptive conduct in or near restricted buildings or grounds.
Nick DeCarlo
Nicholas Joseph DeCarlo, 31, said that he was an employee of “MT Media News,” which stands for Murder the Media News, according to authorities.
The Burleson man was arrested Jan. 26 on charges of obstructing or impeding an official proceeding; knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds without lawful authority; and parading or demonstrating on Capitol grounds.
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Photos on social media show him smoking inside the Capitol, and he bragged about storming the building on Jan. 6 and accomplishing the mission of shutting down Congress’ certification of the presidential election, a federal criminal complaint said.
David Judd
David Lee Judd, 35, of Carrollton is accused of throwing a firecracker at police while trying to violently shove his way into the Capitol.
The Sherman man has been charged with assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers or employees; and civil disorder.
Judd, wearing a “Make America Great Again” baseball cap, was seen on surveillance footage with a group of rioters at a tunnel entrance, authorities say. “He then lights an object on fire and throws it at the line of law enforcement officers who are guarding the Lower West Terrace doors,” officials wrote in a criminal complaint.
Garret Miller
Garret Adam Miller, 34, was arrested Jan. 20 after surveillance video — as well as his own social-media posts — implicated him, according to authorities.
Miller allegedly made death threats in his posts, calling for the murder of a U.S. Capitol Police officer and the assassination of “AOC,” an apparent reference to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. In one of his posts, Miller wrote, “Next time we bring the guns,” a criminal complaint.
Miller indicated he was going to drive to Washington D.C. for the Jan. 6 Donald Trump rally, the FBI says, and he claimed to have had a rope in his bag that day. He wrote that the last time he went to Washington for a Trump rally he “had a lot of guns” with him, the FBI says.
He has been ordered to remain in custody until trial.
Daniel Phipps
Daniel Dink Phipps, 48, of Garland was arrested Jan. 26 on charges of knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority and impeding or disrupting official functions; and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.
A Fort Worth police analyst who monitors social media for threats found posts that resulted in Phipps’ arrest, authorities said.
On Jan 8, Phipps posted a photo on Facebook of himself inside the Capitol holding an American flag, a criminal complaint said. And he said in another post that “Everyone talks about being a patriot until its time to do patriot [expletive],” the complaint says.
Guy Reffitt
Guy Wesley Reffitt told his family he went to Washington, D.C., “to protect the country,” that he brought a gun with him and that he stormed the Capitol, authorities say.
The 48-year-old Wylie man was arrested Jan. 18 on charges of obstruction of justice and illegal entry after his son turned him in.
Images from the insurrection show Reffitt wearing a helmet with a camera mounted on it, according to an affidavit.
His son told authorities that Reffitt warned him not to report him or he would “do what he had to do,” according to the affidavit. While Reffitt’s daughter was on the phone with friends, he told her that if she betrayed the family, he would “put a bullet through” her phone.
Reffitt was ordered to remain in custody after prosecutors said he was plotting more political violence.
Jenna Ryan
Jennifer “Jenna” Leigh Ryan, 51, attended the Jan. 6 riot after flying to Washington on a private jet and later told the media that she went because Donald Trump encouraged it.
“We’re all gonna be up here,” Ryan said in one video shared on social media. “We’re gonna be breaking those windows. … Because we have to.” In another clip, she advertised her real-estate services.
The real estate broker from Carrollton turned herself in to authorities Jan. 15 on charges of knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.
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Authorities later added charges of violent entry and disorderly conduct in a Capitol building and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building.
Ryan was released from custody and later said that she “bought into a lie.”
Troy Smocks
Troy Anthony Smocks, 59, of Dallas faces a charge of knowingly and willfully transmitting threats in interstate commerce. He was arrested Jan. 15.
Police said that after traveling to Washington, D.C., Smocks posted on social media that Donald Trump’s supporters would return to Washington on Jan. 19, and that they’d be armed.
“We will come in numbers that no standing army or police agency can match,” he wrote, according to a criminal complaint.